Hooray! We are celebrating our 10-year anniversary in 2023! The celebrations will be themed around the future of arts.
We develop and support activities in artistic research both in the university as well as outside it.
The Centre for Artistic Research (CfAR) develops and supports activities in Artistic Research (AR) at the postdoctoral level, both in the Academies (Academy of Fine Arts, Sibelius Academy, and Theatre Academy) and in the Uniarts Helsinki as a whole.
CfAR was created in order to form a community where artistic practice and practitioners, research and researchers can interact in varied and fruitful ways. It gathers all postdoctoral artist-researchers, whether they work in professional fields outside universities or within them, by contract or as visiting researchers, with or without external funding, in Finland or abroad. In addition, CfAR is open to other researchers interested in the study of artistic practices and processes who may benefit from artistic interaction and collaboration with artists and artist-researchers.
Subscribe to CfAR’s newsletter by contacting Michaela Bränn.
Art offers a premise and an aim for research: a motive, a terrain, a context and a whole range of methods.
The goal of CfAR is to investigate and to show how far artistic research can reach when it is conducted at the postdoctoral level.
Application for The Centre for Artistic Research (CfAR) Visiting Researchers programme is ongoing.
Find the right contact information from the list of researchers in CfAR (in Finnish).
Find more about our activities and events from the previous website.
Here you’ll find some examples of our research projects.
In her artistic research (2014-2021), Mari Martin makes art in urban environments in collaboration with others, while reflecting on and testing the concept of dialogue.
Elina Saloranta’s artistic research examines Finnish singer Elli Forssell.
Artistic research by Satu Olkkonen focuses on events and public performances.
CfAR maintains the portal for artistic research activities in Finland.
RUUKKU is an international journal on Artistic Research, hosted by the Finnish team of Uniarts Helsinki, Aalto Arts, and the University of Lapland.
The Nordic network is coordinated by the University of the Arts Helsinki.